Interview Date: 22nd August, 2024
C: Clara Cheung, G: Gum Cheng, M: Marcus Smith
| I. | C: | How about any other changes around the area, like for example, standing on Harcourt Road, Crookes Valley Road, we see the architecture of a church, but it's no longer a church anymore. It’s also shared like an apartment, basically. How about this change? Are there any other really significant changes that you recall and that are memorable? |
| M: | Yeah, I feel like the identity, and this is not, this is not a resistance to the change, because I accept change happens regardless. But what I have noticed is, because we're so close to the university, this has become a student environment. This is where the students live, and I feel like that's taken, maybe taking a touch, a tiny bit of the identity away from what it originally was, and has now given it a new identity of again, acceptance and embracing of different cultures, even though they're here for different reasons. So I feel like it represents the same thing, but it's different. Different personality, a different, a different, a different spirit, definitely a different spirit. But I feel like the student influx has really changed the living arrangements. Now we see a lot more flats, the church maintaining some flats, and also the amount of people that walk up here now -- there's so many faces you don't know, whereas 20 years ago, you would know everyone. So I think the change here has been -- it's not a negative change, it's definitely a positive change as because education is key to the world, but I do believe that it has changed the identity of the neighbourhood due to the change in the use of the area, which I don't think is a bad thing. I just think it's quite interesting that this, this area, has become another area. It's become a an area of acceptance for another social group, so to speak. I think that's kind of, it's kind of magic. Think it's a nice thing, yeah, definitely. And luckily, we've got a lot of green space still. So as long as the green space stays untouched, I think it'll be all right. |
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